Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-03-23
SECRETS OF BEAUTY.
How Handsome womeu Manage
70 Preserve Their Charms
The Caring for Beauty ani the Cultivation
OiIt-A Islushiag Brides Confession-
Influence OF Sleep ana Food
Upon Health and Looks.


IA woman In ~ Y. Start
There Is nothing hut marrying and Civ
ing in marriage. To drive as fast as the
ordinary horse will go from one wedding
TO another is altogether charming especi-
ally if one has a pleasant companion. /
have lived long enough in the world to
always p-oviie ie for this emergency. The
people who were married looked neither
happy nor proud. And / quite believe il
to b true that few of them are. The av-
eraCe bridegroom, even if he is in love
with his BRIDE does not enjoy being rated
as second best man, nor does he feel like
being necessary, though absolutely in.
significant, feature of the affair. The
bride is no longer blushing and nervous,
but usual perfectly self-possessed and
with half contemptuous pity for
the man at her side. The ushers
look like undertalSers' men, and the bI ide-
maids are unpleasantly conscious of new
gowns. The only people who have good
time at wedding are the lookers-on; we
women have ali gotten so used to crying
at them that we count it q luxury. and
would not be deprived of il for the world,
while all the funny and some times naughty
comments of the men of the party add
TO the charm
Brides do such queer things nowadays.
| quite remember when, in the extreme
South, the bride was as eager to look love.
~ at all times TO her husband as she had
been TO her sweetheart. But here, il the
bride is following a course that is 20 add
to her beauty. as very many are nowadays,
she does not allow an interruption be
cause she is doing such an ordinary thing
as getting married. Think of bride
sufficiently self-possessed to say to
her bridegroom Of a few hours: "Well,
my dear boy, my complexion, which looks
SO nice, would be very wretched if did
not cover it every night with a mixture
that has an egg beaten in it; over this. to
keep it from soiliag the pillow ana to keep
the air out tie quilted mask with open.
ings for my eyes, nose and mouth, and
can not think of stopping il now. You
would have to know il little later on
and you might as well get used to il in the
beginning" She told this her very self,
and added tn mea were so queer, be-
cause nc male q great row about il, and
chose to sleep on lounge.
This caring for beauty and the cultiva.
tion Of it has become fad to which the
latest French slang. that is infecte. is
very applicable Mademoiselle walks
eats, bathes, perfumes, powders, rouges,
dresses, all with the thought of her
opNOlell NY NDW, DOlty, lulS Is
all very well, If they would only keeI
quiet about it, but they don't or course
they hardly ever tell it to men, but wher.
ever dove party is you will be sure some
woman viii be telling of something tc
brighten the eyes, or make them look
larger. to make firm the flesh, to increase
or decrease it, Some of the old customs
the simplest, by the by-are decidedly
the best (Now. am speaking from The
authority of mas ter.) For dark-eyed
women. touch of rouge Immediately
under the eyes will enlarge them, deeper
their color and make them flash more; but
a dash of rouge doas not mean all that is
in the box, and it does mean the careful
shading of with bit Of soft linen, follow
ing the shape of the eye Women talk
bout rougirg the ears-this is nonsense
Whenever rouge is used the lobes Of the
cars and the tip of the chin should always
be touched with il, because when woman
bushes they always grow a little rosy.
For the eyebrows the very knowing
woman rubs them with little tincture OF
cantharides once week, then with the
tip OF her finger and some vaseline theif
shape is distinctly followed She also
knows that rubbing the ewes much Will
destroy the beauty of the lashes On her
toile.-stan1 she keeps bottle of olive oil:
this is used whenever the face is little
rough. to increase the size of the bust. on
which 1T rs rubbed by the hand every night
the proper outline being followed, and il
is also chosen for the hands diluted with
n little rose water. For fevcrish breath
she uses few drops OF camphor III glass
of water as girgle. while if her nose is
red and she traces 1t to n determination to
make her waist small the cam pa Or is also
applied to it, ard she avoids all highly
cfaife eaH fna for
The professor Of the art Of beauty never
advises early rising and regards the early
bird idea as one very pernic!ous to good
looks. Beautiful women should sleep and
sleep we'll Not too much on one side be
cause that will cause wrinkles about the
eyes and make one entire side Of the fig
ure less round than the other; OF course
the mouth must be closed. ana equally of
course the softest of down coverhds must
not be drawn over the head French
women make their toilets for bed with the
same care that they would for the street
and in this they arc wIse, because the
woman who is always careful will
Lot be likely to bc discovered in an
! unpleasant and unbeconing deshabille OF
any kind ] am sure, my Dorothy. that
this is what grandmamma meant when
she used to tell US little children thai
we must look sweet and pretty in bed.
and that Emmeiine must see that
the entire room was in order IL we
asked reason for this, You know. we
were told that it was in case Of firc-a
( something we could never quite under.
stand. We now understand what the
principle was, though then it was a mys.
terry to Us.
The woman who wants TO be handsome
and bright and attractive must eat well.
/ Not necessarily much, but a great deal of
discrimination should be shown about her
! food. | hate that word food, it alwavs
seems so gross. Game of all kinds, very
underdone, salads, fruit, outlets. eggs
and, when she likes it, roasts, are good for
woman's beauty, while cocoa and choco
! late, are equally desirable. The fad fo1
cold baths should belong to her brother,
and for woman tepid or even hot ta.hs
are most desirable. Bot / mustn't talk
about these things all the time, ana yo.
they are the subjects most interesting, not
only to women who are slightly passe, but
n OF, all